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Winter gardening for wildlife

Do you have an urban oasis? Could you become a potted champion? This is your winter gardening guide to bring nature right to your doorstep.

Manchester skyline by Nick Rodd

Creating wild neighbourhoods

Conserving wild spaces for nature has been the leading way to protect biodiversity for hundreds of years. While the idea of keeping nature safe in pockets of greenery is an attractive one,…

Window box by Felicity Paris

Designing a garden for wildlife in Withington

Felicity Paris has been transforming her garden in Withington for wildlife for the last five-years. In this blog she shares what she has been up to and how local wildlife has benefitted.

Planting on an allotment

How to grow a wildlife-friendly allotment

My Wild City Project Officer, Hilary Wood, tells us about her wildlife-friendly allotment plot. From seedlings to slugs, cabbages to caterpillars, growing vegetables and flowers in harmony with…

A pair of dark-bellied Brent geese standing in a pool in a green field

Latest wildlife sightings – January 2021

Snow, hail, floods, sunshine, gales – we had every weather imaginable last month – not that the wildlife seemed to mind! Here are the latest sightings from our nature reserves.

Ectemnius sp by Pauline Weeks

Late summer bees and wasps

The end of summer is fast approaching and we are seeing the new queen and male bumblebees in our gardens regularly now. New social wasp queens are appearing and male wasps will follow in the next…

Bombus vestalis by Karen McCartney

Midsummer bees and wasps

Is it that time of year already? As we move into July the early spring bees have finished their work and we start to see solitary wasps with more frequency and will start to see new queen…

A reintroduced large heath butterfly after release

How do you reintroduce an extinct butterfly?

Locally known as the Manchester argus, habitat destruction forced the large heath butterfly into extinction across Greater Manchester well over 100 years ago, but through our Species…

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